Daniela Arias Ortiz

Reservoir and Completions Engineer

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Daniela Arias Ortiz works with ResFrac as a reservoir and completions engineer at ResFrac, focusing on reservoir data analysis, improving workflows, and customer support.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the National University of Colombia in 2017. Her curiosity for unconventional reservoirs took her to Saudi Arabia in 2018, where she pursued her Master’s and PhD at KAUST University. There, she dove deep into understanding flow behavior in hydraulically fractured shale wells, the impact of hydraulic fracture geometry on well productivity, and forecasting field production from shale reservoirs.

When she’s not solving reservoir puzzles, Daniela enjoys live music, trying new foods, and staying active. You can often find her climbing, hiking, doing CrossFit, or practicing aerial silks. Although she doesn’t dive, Daniela enjoys snorkeling and exploring the underwater world. She’s also a coffee enthusiast who loves traveling, especially when it involves exploring new cultures!

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$Figure 2. The ResFrac model of the original completion: tall fractures that grow up into overlying benches while proppant stays mostly in the target interval.$

Targeting the reserves between clusters: modeling strategic refracs and infills in ResFrac

Older, wide-spacing Delaware Basin wells can leave high-pressure rock stranded between fractures. Devon used ResFrac to design liner refracs whose peak rates came in within 1% of forecast, and to show why an offset infill beats a refrac at tight cluster spacing.

Automatic Report Generation in ResFracPro

This month’s release has a feature that I am particularly excited about – automatic report generation. The reports are generated automatically when a simulation finishes. Also, reports can be generated on-demand for simulations that have already been completed. The reports are highly customizable, allowing the user to generate different line plots, 3D visualizations, preview plots, and tabular data. The user can provide a template PPT, so that the report is made with their preferred PPT style.

Introducing ResFrac’s New Multisector Capability

This month’s ResFrac release has a ton of new capabilities. The most important is called ‘multisector’ – the ability to split different sections of the well across different computers. This capability provides a computationally efficient and practical way to run larger models and handle complex scenarios. Hats off to Danial Zeinabady and Michael Nole, who have been the main developers on this project. Beyond them, it’s been a big team effort, pulling in folks from cloud, simulator, and user-success. First, let’s review – what is sector modeling? Why do we need a ‘multi’ version of it?